ApocaDocs: Goals for carbon reduction become law in Eugene

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Posted Fri Aug 8 2014: from The Register-Guard:


	Goals for carbon reduction become law in Eugene http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1407500367 The Eugene City Council voted Monday to put some teeth into previously approved goals to reduce the city's fossil fuel use and carbon emissions. The so-called "climate recovery ordinance," which passed on a 6-2 vote, seeks to cut communitywide fossil fuel use by 50 percent by 2030, compared with 2010 usage. It also calls for city government operations to be entirely "carbon neutral" by 2020, either by reducing its own greenhouse gas emissions or by funding local emission reduction projects.... Mayor Kitty Piercy responded that "science" was the motivation for the ordinance. "What's the cost of not doing something?" she asked.

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'Doc Jim says:

The scientific revolution, now hundreds of years in the making, continues.